Deconstructing Popular Culture.

Stuart Hall.
What is he saying?
Staurt Hall argues that the term popular culture or what it is termed to be popular emerged in the 1880's to the 1920's a time where there were a lot of political, social, and cultural changes. Hall argues that during this period, the culture of the working class is supressed, in what he calls "popular imperialsm". He uses the press as an example in which he suggests that the middles class press of the mid nineteenth cetury was constructed on the back of the destruction of the working class press.
Hall argues that the term "popular culture" is simply a term used by socialists to sell an alternative lifestyle to the masses. He believes that the lives of the working class are reorganised, reconstructed and reshaped trhough the media for example soap opera coronation street. He arguesm that through repetition and selection the cultural industries are able to impose the concept of dominant and preferred culture.
Hall suggests that there is a continous attempt of the dominant culture to constantly disorganise and reorganise popular culture.
Reading this text has given me an an alternative understanding of popular culture.